The U.S. government will pay vaccine maker Moderna $176 million to increase the development of a pandemic influenza vaccine that could be used to treat bird flu in people, federal officials announced on Tuesday.
The largest vaccine study to date shows COVID vaccines administered by companies like Pfizer, Moderna and AstraZeneca have been linked to rare occurrences of heart, brain and blood disorders.
Moderna and Merck have announced a vaccine that shows promising results for treating the deadliest form of skin cancer.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved of updated COVID-19 boosters from Pfizer and Moderna on Monday.
Pharmaceutical companies Pfizer, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson are the subjects of an inquiry by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton investigating whether the COVID-19 vaccine suppliers conducted gain-of-function research and deceived the public about them.
The FDA has made some changes to the Pfizer and Moderna COVID shots. And documents have circulated showing doctors were incentivized for patients who got the COVID shot.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is now claiming that in order to make the immunization process simpler for the majority of people, the emergency use authorizations (EUAs) for the original Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 mRNA vaccines are no longer in effect.
Moderna plans to quadruple the price of its COVID vaccine once it hits the commercial market drawing the anger of lawmakers on Capitol Hill.
Bernie Sanders is scheduled to participate in a Senate grilling of Moderna CEO Stephane Bance.
Pfizer partner BioNTech pushed for social media platforms to censor activists who demanded low-cost generic vaccines for low-income countries.